Biology:Chasmatopora

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Short description: Extinct genus of moss animals

Chasmatopora
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Phylloporinidae
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Chasmatopora

d'Orbigny, 1849

Chasmatopora is an extinct genus of bryozoans which existed in what is now Mongolia, China , Estonia, Russia , Poland , Argentina , the United States and Canada . It was described by Alcide d'Orbigny in 1849, and the type species is Chasmatopora tenella, which was originally described as a species of Retepora by Eichwald in 1842.[1]

Species

  • Chasmatopora aperta Kopajevich, 1984
  • Chasmatopora disparilis Liu, 1980
  • Chasmatopora extensa Liu, 1980
  • Chasmatopora flexa Zheng, 1990
  • Chasmatopora livonica (Nekhoroshev, 1960)
  • Chasmatopora moyeroensis Nekhoroshev, 1955
  • Chasmatopora pusilla Astrova, 1965
  • Chasmatopora silurica (Kopaevich, 1975)
  • Chasmatopora sublaxa Ulrich, 1890
  • Chasmatopora hypnoides (Sharpe, 1853)
  • Chasmatopora tenella (Eichwald, 1842)
  • Chasmatopora tricellata (Nekhoroshev, 1955)
  • Chasmatopora rossae Ernst & Carrera, 2012[2]

References

  1. Chasmatopora at www.bryozoa.net.
  2. Andrej Ernst; Marcelo Carrera (2012). "Upper Ordovician (Sandbian) bryozoan fauna from Argentine Precordillera". Journal of Paleontology 86 (5): 721–752. doi:10.1666/12-024.1. 

Wikidata ☰ Q5087379 entry